The Wildlife of Borneo The
animals
of the jungle

 

 

Kinabatangan river

From our lodge accommodation by the Kinabatangan River, we travelled by boat upstream to view river snakes, proboscis monkeys, Asian elephants, hornbills,
kingfishers all in their natural habitat.

river lodge returning to the lodge
elephant
right
yellow racer snake basking in a tree
(a hard picture to get from a dugout canoe)

below
common kingfisher
(blending well with background)

 racer snake
common kingfisher  

amongst the many
other bird species seen include

white collared kingfisher
crested serpent eagle
bushy crested hornbill
rhinoceros hornbill
black hornbill
storm stork
cattle egrett
greater coucal
chestnut mounia
oriental darter
grey heron

 

 

 

 

Sepilok Orang-Utan Center

At Sandakan we visited the world famous Sepilok Orang-Utan Rehabilitation Center.

These creatures are seriously endangered and the center attempts to retrain orphaned apes in survival skills so that they can be re-introduced back into the wild.

semi-wild Orang Utang at Sepilok
Orang Utang feeding time
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see the close up picture
that every visitor to Borneo wants to see

mother and child

of one of the worlds greatest mammals

 

 

 

 

 

And on the jungle floor

 
leech leeches

for some members of the group these became a common problem
snail snail

but it's shell was
over two inches wide
termite mound termite mound

 

 

 

Monkeys

we saw three
species of Monkey

proboscis monkey

maroon lengur monkey

long tailed macaque monkey

 
proboscis monkey left - proboscis monkeys
near the Kinabatangan River
long tailed macaque monkey
these three pictures are of long tailed
macaque monkey a relatively
common monkey in Borneo.
We saw them at three places
the Sepilok centre,
the Kinabatangan River,
and the Gomantong caves areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a skull from the "head hunters trail"

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